Cannon Design has been selected by the Department of Veterans Affairs to serve as the planners, architects and engineers for the St. Louis VA Medical Center/John Cochran Division. The St. Louis VAMC—a two division facility serving veterans and their families in both east central Missouri and southwestern Illinois—is a full-service healthcare facility providing inpatient and ambulatory care in medicine, surgery, psychiatry, neurology, and rehabilitation, as well as over 65 subspecialty areas.
“This extraordinary news is founded on the success of our IDIQ work in the Mid Atlantic region,” notes Michael T. Felton, AIA, Principal, “as well as our successful VA projects in Cleveland and Fayetteville.”
Named after the late Missouri congressman, The John Cochran Division is located in midtown St. Louis in close proximity to its affiliated medical schools—St. Louis University and Washington University. It has all of the medical center’s operative surgical capabilities, the ambulatory care unit, and a six-story Clinical Addition that includes surgical facilities, intensive care units, outpatient psychiatry clinics, and expanded laboratory.
This project will add 260,000 sf of new patient care space, renovate 130,000 sf of existing patient space, and add a 1,000-car parking structure. Master planning activities for this multi-million dollar program has begun and will follow with the initiation of the schematic design phase.